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the_aftoday at 2:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Nature won't know or care if humanity erases itself.

You got downvoted for paraphrasing the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains", from which Bradbury took the title of his story.

I supposed that's to be expected online. Small consolation, but at least some of us understood you :)

  And not one will know of the war, not one
  Will care at last when it is done.

  Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
  If mankind perished utterly;

  And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
  Would scarcely know that we were gone.

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mbernsteintoday at 6:55 PM

Thanks. Glad at least a few people understood. I pulled out my copy of Martian Chronicles today (which I'm fortunate to have signed by Bradbury) when I saw this pop up on the main page.

inigyoutoday at 2:56 PM

It's common for spammers to use an LLM to post a short summary of a thing in the thing's comments, to attract upvotes.

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